" Law enforcement agencies and the military are increasingly being infiltrated by gang members seeking access to training, confidential information and military-grade weapons "

" The cause of China’s problems is exactly like America’s. In both nations, a new, powerful Super Rich is aligned with politicians — will eventually self-destruct. The World Bank warns that China’s corrupt state-owned companies have created a Chinese Super Rich class aligning communist party bosses and corporate executives.

" And neither has any interest in the World Bank’s call for reforming their incestuous economic system — which is exactly the same problem with America’s conspiracy between our Super Rich, Wall Street CEOs and Washington politicians. "

For entertainment purposes only: the coming cyberpunk decade

" In some cities, bondholders will be burned. But America’s failing governments may be one of those crises whose full impact is not registered in the muni market, or in any market. Until voters can agree on what government services they want and will pay for, it is possible that bondholders will bank the profits while taxpayers, employees and citizens share the losses. "

"Dr Birol said that the public and many governments appeared to be oblivious to the fact that the oil on which modern civilisation depends is running out far faster than previously predicted and that global production is likely to peak in about 10 years – at least a decade earlier than most governments had estimated."

"Crop scientists fear the Ug99 fungus could wipe out more than 80% of worldwide wheat crops as it spreads from eastern Africa. It has already jumped the Red Sea and traveled as far as Iran. Experts say it is poised to enter the breadbasket of northern India and Pakistan, and the wind will inevitably carry it to Russia, China and even North America -- if it doesn't hitch a ride with people first."

"As people lose confidence in the ability of markets and governments to solve the global crisis, they are likely to erupt into violent protests or to assault others they deem responsible for their plight, including government officials, plant managers, landlords, immigrants and ethnic minorities."

"Everything in the known universe is said to be racing toward the massive clumps of matter at more than 2 million miles (3.2 million kilometers) an hour—a movement the researchers have dubbed dark flow. The presence of the extra-universal matter suggests that our universe is part of something bigger—a multiverse—and that whatever is out there is very different from the universe we know"

Life is starting to resemble something I read in a Lovecraftian pastiche twice.

"imagine that we instituted a brutally high gas tax that reduced emissions from American vehicles by 25 percent. That would be a stunning achievement - and in just 9 months, China’s increased emissions would have more than made up the difference."

"This stark warning will be outlined by the peace group International Alert in a report, A Climate of Conflict, this week. Much of Africa, Asia and South America will suffer outbreaks of war and social disruption..."

"All these speculations suggest a kind of 'end of technological man'. ... its precursor events would produce changes in social life and social consciousness so that... some new state of being (whose shape we cannot predict here) would emerge."

"Honeybees don't just make honey; they pollinate more than 90 of the tastiest flowering crops we have. ... "This is the biggest general threat to our food supply," Hackett said."